🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Satellite imagery confirms that another Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber was indeed hit in an Ukrainian drone attack at Engels-2 Air Base overnight.

Unlike the Tu-95MS hit during the July 16 attack, which suffered critical damage, this one only lost part of its right wing.

📰— Reuters: Gulf states activate sovereign wealth funds to bypass Strait of Hormuz

🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 🔻Israeli media says:

“U.S. administration has warned Israel against carrying out any unilateral strikes against Iran.”

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇬🇦🇪🇮🇷 Reuters⁠: The Trump administration plans to restrict an Egyptian bank over its business with Iran, including revoking the US financial access of Banque Misr’s branches in the UAE.

If finalised, the proposed rule would prevent Banque Misr UAE from maintaining correspondent banking relationships with US financial institutions, effectively cutting its direct access to the US financial system.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: As part of the economic D-Day sanctions against Iran, Iranians have been banned from taking the Duolinguo English test.

🇰🇷 Both initial flight tests of the South Korean military's ADD UCAV (an analogue copy of the Iranian Shahed-136) ended in failure, with the drones crashing into the water immediately after launch.

The manufacturing cost for the two prototype drones has been reported as $35 million.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇦🇪/🇪🇬 U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent:

‘Treasury promised to sever every economic lifeline Tehran has left and finally end the threat of the Iranian regime. We also warned that Iran’s enablers cannot continue to enjoy access to the U.S. dollar and the global financial system.

Banque Misr UAE decided to find out the hard way, and today, we are taking the first step in holding it accountable for its continued, egregious support of the Iranian regime.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In response to Trump’s claim that America controls the Strait of Hormuz, hundreds of Iranian citizens and paramilitary volunteers (Basij) went out and sailed through the Strait

Some of the boats were threatened multiple times by the U.S. Navy, but ignored warnings and continued to sail.

🇮🇷🔻Clashes between Iranian security forces and terrorist elements in the city of Saravan, southeastern Iran; one terrorist killed and 6 others arrested.

🇮🇷 | Iranian anti-ship missiles were launched at violating ships.

⚡🇮🇷 — Iranian President Pezeshkian says Iran is ready to cooperate with Saudi Arabia, UAE and other regional countries.

🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Since 16:00 local time today, 28/08/2026, Iran has launched three Hadid-110 advanced attack drones and two cruise missiles at ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz without prior approval from the Persian Gulf Strait Authority.

So far, reports tell at least one successful strike.

🇷🇺❌️🇺🇦 A massive explosion followed by dozens of secondary blasts have rocked the Bucha area in the Kyiv region.

It's believed that the Russian Geran-4 jet attack drones, successfully struck a major ammunition storage centre.

A close up of the initial blast at the ammunition storage depot in Bucha, Kyiv region of Ukraine.

🇺🇸/🇻🇪🔻President Trump:

“The United States has reached an agreement with Venezuela that gives it control over the majority of Venezuela's proven oil reserves, which exceed 65 billion barrels, without any cost to American taxpayers.”

🇺🇦/🇷🇺🔻Zelensky: For everything Russia is doing, it will receive a response.

❗️Summary of Israeli attacks in south Lebanon since midnight:

• Airstrike on Mansouri.

• Drone strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

• Artillery shelling targeting Ali al-Taher Heights.

• Artillery shelling targeting Kfar Rumman.

• Artillery shelling targeting Wadi al-Salouqi.

• Artillery shelling targeting the outskirts of Yater.

• Artillery shelling targeting the outskirts of Haris.

• Artillery shelling targeting the heights of Hebbariyah.

• Explosions between Aita al-Jabal and Haddatha.

• Advance of Israeli occupation forces into the eastern neighborhood of Kfar Shuba, entering a house under construction and raising an Israeli flag, coinciding with machine gun combing operations in the surrounding area.

• Burning of houses in Beit Yahoun.

• Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a shepherd near the outskirts of the town of Shebaa; no injuries reported.

🇨🇦 Ontario Premier Doug Ford, unveiled a large “Lake Ontario” sign along the shoreline in response to President Trump’s executive order renaming the lake “Lake America.”